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The New Norm

The New Norm is an American animated sitcom that premiered on the social platform X (formerly Twitter) on June 25, 2024, presenting itself as an anti-woke, family-friendly comedy about a conservative father clashing with a progressive world¹^•². It was billed by its own account as "the first animated sit-com on X" and as "the South Park of X," and it drew heavily negative reactions from viewers and critics across the political spectrum³^•⁴.

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	June 25, 2024, on X (United States)¹
Creators	Jose Behar, Akiva Prell, and Sophia Prell¹
Voice cast	JP Sears as Norm, Larry Elder as Charlie, Dave Rubin as Chaz¹
Episodes	4 released between June 25, 2024 and February 19, 2025⁵
Runtime	About 3 minutes per released episode; the pilot runs 3 minutes 40 seconds¹^•⁶
Rating	TV-MA; IMDb user score 1.3/10 from about 1,700 votes¹
Production companies	Twitter and Pitch Dev Studios¹

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Premise and characters

The show centers on Norm, a conservative father who is under house arrest for threatening his local school board members over their teaching of gender identity⁷. As a condition of his parole, he must welcome into his home Chaz, a nonbinary online influencer, to "re-educate" him⁸. The cast also includes Norm's wife Janice, a school guidance counselor, his daughter Chloe, and Charlie, Norm's Black boss at a trophy shop, voiced by radio host Larry Elder⁸^•⁹.

The series is heavily inspired by the classic sitcom All in the Family, even adopting a similar three-wall set aesthetic despite being animated, and its official site describes it as "an animated All In The Family for our time"⁷^•⁸. The show's strapline is "Make America funny again," and its stated goal is to bridge, through comedy, the gap between extremes in a polarized society²^•⁸.

Episodes

Four episodes were released in season 1⁵:

Pilot (June 25, 2024): Chaz joins the family, and Norm sprays himself in the face with a gay beer⁵.
Electile Dysfunction (October 31, 2024): Norm campaigns against Chaz for a seat on the school board that got him house-arrested⁵^•⁸.
Election 2024: War Games (November 6, 2024): the household anticipates the election outcome while both sides fight each other⁵^•¹¹.
MEMECOIN (February 19, 2025): after Chaz makes his own memecoin, which is overtaken by Trump's, Norm creates his own⁵^•¹².

The project site lists further planned scripts, including "Woke Disney World," an artificial intelligence episode featuring the digital assistant OMNI, two "Transitioning" episodes, "That's Not Funny" featuring Adam Carolla, "The Wedding," and "Viral"⁸.

Production and release

The New Norm is a successor to the Woke World webcomic, which features the same cast⁷. The official project site describes a 20-minute-per-episode animated sitcom born from a comic strip, with all characters rigged for quick animation and all sets built, presented as a turn-key project seeking a network partner⁸. The episodes actually released on X run about three minutes each¹.

The pilot was posted on June 25, 2024, and was viewed over 22 million times in its first days, though it was unclear whether those views came from fans³. The pilot features caricatures of U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, former Biden official Sam Brinton, and a nonbinary character, and concludes with an unvoiced, animated appearance by Elon Musk, the CEO of X¹⁰. Its theme song includes the lines "Thank God for Elon Musk / X is the home for free speech"⁷. Some viewers accused the show of using artificial intelligence to generate its dialogue and theme song³.

Reception

The show received extremely negative reviews from critics and audiences alike upon release¹. Its IMDb user score of 1.3/10 from about 1,700 votes made it, according to a Stacker survey of lowest-rated shows by year, the lowest-rated television show released in 2024¹^•¹³.

Screenwriter and novelist Gareth Roberts, best known for his work on Doctor Who, reviewed the pilot for UnHerd, calling the script "excruciating" and the show "flesh-creepingly awful," while noting that the animation, character design, and voice performances were technically fine². He argued that the show's failure showed that simply mocking the obvious fatuities of "woke" politics no longer works as comedy².

Reactions came from both sides of the political divide. The Blaze's Logan Hall wrote that television shows about leftism were "the cringiest, most unwatchable, nauseating trash ever created" but that shows about conservatism were "somehow even worse," and journalist Zaid Jilani argued that such "boomer RW shows" do nothing actually subversive¹⁰. The show's account acknowledged the reception in a follow-up tweet, calling The New Norm "a 'safe space' for people on all sides to come together and laugh (or yell at each other). Like a family."³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 2022 to 2026

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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